"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli

Friday, September 12, 2008

Links & More-- (Mostly Bio Stuff)

Glad to know Matt weathered this storm-- let's hope they do as well in the coming one(s).

Reid is up to his ass in metaphorical alligators but is well and we hope for his return soon.I am now writing three more (long) chapters for my at- some- time- to- be- revealed project that has been consuming my time since April. I am being neurotically perfectionist about it. I must. The hawk was briefly in the air but the truck has been broken down all week which gets in the way of that. Fall and first frost feel imminent.

Stingray has new tattoos of deep- sea life. (There are also internal links to LabRat's Neotropical wildlife.) On their main page is Stingray's eloquent INFORMED dismantling of the Large Hadron Collector's doomsayers.

And other cats. I thought this was satirical and would end in carnage, but it is actually rather heart- warming, though as they say don't try this at home. The white- bearded guy is George Adamson so it is old. Remember, lions ATE his famous wife.

Walter Hingley gave this link to a YouTube of a robot "dog". It is fascinating but it creeps me out too-- the giant housefly sound effects and its headlessness make it more resemble an enormous alien insect. I sort of wanted a huge flyswatter.

Steve did you hear the BBC Report on the RSPCA pulling out of Crufts because of dangerous inbreeding in pedigree dogs?Here is a text link:http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_7610000/newsid_7616800/7616873.stmNow for the ASPCA....?

Steve Bodio--were you asking what happened to George Adamson? Sadly, he was killed by humans, too. Some "shifta" terrorists tried to stop him and a student helper on a road in the bush--George was having none of that, and hit the gas and tried to blow past them, but the thugs had automatic weapons, and killed them both. I actually found George's book MUCH better than Joy's, about his many adventures in Africa--titled "Living With Lions" or something like that. He was an amazing guy.....L.B.